Species Protopalythoa mutuki (Haddon & Shackleton, 1891)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gemmaria mutuki Haddon, A.C. & Shackleton, A.M. 1891. Reports on the zoological collections made in Torres Straits by Professor A.C. Haddon, 1888–1889. Actiniae: I. Zoantheae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 4: 673–701 [689–690, pl. 61, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1891.10.1.8, QLD, Torres Strait, Mabuiag.
• Gemmaria variabilis Duerden, J.E. 1898. Jamaican Actiniaria. Part I. – Zoantheæ. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 6(14): 329–384 [350–354].
• Gemmaria willeyi Whitelegge, T. 1899. The Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Actinozoa and Vermes of Funafuti. Australian Museum Memoirs 3(7): 369-394, pls xxiii-xxvii [387–391].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G3146, Funafuti Atoll.
• Gemmaria arenacea Wilsmore, L.J. 1909. On some Zoanthae from Queensland and the New Hebrides. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 30(20): 313–328 [323–326].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1910.6.4.2, QLD, Capricorn Group, Masthead Island.
• Palythoa yongei Carlgren, O. 1937. Ceriantharia and Zoantharia. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5: 177-207 [198–199].
• Palythoa australiensis Carlgren, O. 1950. Corallimorpharia, Actiniaria and Zoantharia from New South Wales and South Queensland. Arkiv för Zoologi 1: 131-146 [144–145].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G15226, NSW, Nambucca Heads nr Wellington Rocks [30°39’S, 153°01’E].
• Palythoa singaporensis Pax, F. & Müller, I. 1956. Zoantharien der "Mission Ranson en Océanie" (1952). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (N.S.) [1993-2016] 8: 225–247 [233].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ryland, J.S. & Lancaster, J.E. 2003. Revision of methods for separating species of Protopalythoa (Hexacorallia: Zoanthidea) in the tropical West Pacific. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 407–428

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Pacific Ocean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	ZOANTHIDEA Gray, 1840	13-Aug-2013	ADDED	Dr Bronwen Scott
05-Aug-2022		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		28-Jul-2010	MODIFIED
		13-Jul-2010	MODIFIED